Combined fish-plate, bond, and protector.



L. D. VAUGHN & W. P SAMPLES. COMBINED FISH PLATE, Bonn, AND PROTECTOR.

I APPLICATION FILED MAYZZ, 1915. I 1,172,078; Patented Feb, 15,1916.

3mm; L12 Vaughn WPSampIe UNITED STATES PATENT oFFIcF.

LORENZO D. VAUGHN AND WILLIAI P. SAHPLE S, OI GRAFTON, WEST VIRGINIA. V

COMBINED FISH-PLATE, BOND, AND PROTECTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 15, 1916.

Application flied Kay 22, 1916. Serial No. 29,889.

To all whom 115 may concern."

Be it known that we, LORENZO D. VAUGHN and WILLIAM P. SAMPLES, citizens of the United States, residing at Grafton, in the county of Taylor and State of West Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Fish-Plates, Bonds, and Protectors; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to combined fish plates, bonds, and protectors, and one of the principal objects of the invention is to provide improved means for connecting the bonds to the meeting ends of rails by means of a fish plate through which the ends of the bonds extend, and special means for holding the ends in place.

Another object of the invention is to pro.- vide laterally extending deflectors fOI'-",pI6- venting the flanges of the wheels from striking the bond in case of derailment, and said bond being also provided with a flexible joint in the center thereof to 'yieldasthe rolling stock passes over the rail joint.

I The foregoing and other objects and advantages may be attainedby means of the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which r f Figure 1 is a side elevation of a rail joint showing a com ined fish plate, bond and protector made 1n accordance with this invention, Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the. same, Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on the line 33 of Fig.

'of the bond in the fish plate, and Fig. 6 is a sectional view showing the same construction with the split nut also shown in'section.

Referring to the drawing, the numeral 1 designates the meeting ends of a. pair of railway rails, and 2 is an inner fish plate which spans the joint. of the rails upon the inner sides thereof. An outer fish plate 3 spans the rail joint upon the outer side of the rails, and said inner fish plate and outer fish plate are connected together bymeans of bolts 4 extending through said fish plates and through the web 5 of the rail, said bolts 4 being provided with nuts 6. The rail bond comprises a body which consists of two sections 7, which are connected together in the 1, Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1, Fig.

center'by means of a short section of cable or other suitableflexible element 8- connected to the mner ends of the section 7 by means of collars 9. The bond is fitted in a longin tudinal groove 10 in the fish plate 3 near the base flange 11 of therail. .The ends of the bond section 7 are first bent upwardly as shown at 12, and are then bent at right angles to provide attaching extend through openings 1n the fish plate 3 and in the web 5 of the rails. The fish plate 3 is provided with athreaded opening 13, as shown in Fig. 4, and fitted in said arms 16 which 5 threaded openings is a nut 14 having a threaded extension 15, and a threaded bore to receive the threaded arms 16 of the bond section 7.

As shown in Figs. 5 and 6, the bond 7 is provided, with plain unthreaded attaching arms 16, and these arms pass through the webs of the rails, and through the fish plate 3 and a split nut 13 fits the unthreaded arms of the bond section and the threaded tapering Near the opposite end of the fish plate 3 portions 15? are forced into in- 80. .tunate contact with the end 16, by means are laterally extending deflector elements 17, the purpose of WhlCl'l is to deflect the flanges of thewheels in case of derailment to prevent the flanges from injuring or breaking the bond. These deflectors are provided with inclined surfaces substantially triangular in form when viewed in plan, and the outer edges are rounded off as shown at 19.

From, the foregoing it will be obvious that the bond section 7 being connected together in thecenter by afiexible member 8 immediately in alinement with the joint between the rails, will give to any undue pressure of the rolling stock passing over'the joint, and that in case of derailment, the flanges of the wheels will be deflected outward away from the bonds. It will also be apparent that the manner of connecting the ends of the bond to the fish plates are reliable and efiicient and cannot readily become displaced or injured.

18, and are taching arms at the end of the body, said said arms extend, and nuts for securing arms extending in'an angular direction'fromx said 'arms in" theffish plate, said nuts being the body, a fish plate thron'gh which said provided Withthreaded portions engaging 1 arms extend, a nut for securing said arms the arms and the Web of a rail.

5 in the fish plate, said nut being I provided In testimony Where-0f we alfix our signa- With threaded portions extending into opentures in presence of two witnesses.

ings in the fish plate and engaging said arm LORENZO D. VAUGHN.

2. A rail bond comprising a body, 2112- WILLIAM SAMPLES 10 taching arms at the end of the body, said Witnesses:

arms being arranged at an angle with rela- L. E. BENNETT, tion to the body, a fish plate through which E. V. WILLIAMSON. 

